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All-women jury chosen for George Zimmerman’s trial

SANFORD, Fla. – A jury of six women was picked Thursday to decide the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer who says he fatally shot Trayvon M...

U.S. blames Apple at N.Y. trial for e-books price rise

NEW YORK – A Justice Department lawyer urged a judge Thursday to find that Apple Inc. conspired with publishers in 2010 to raise electronic book prices, while an attorney for the computer gi...

All-women jury chosen for George Zimmerman’s trial

SANFORD, Fla. – A jury of six women, five of them white and the other a minority, was picked Thursday to decide the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volun...

Senators announce border security compromise

WASHINGTON – White House-backed immigration legislation gained momentum in the Senate on Thursday as lawmakers closed in on a bipartisan compromise to spend tens of billions of dollars stiff...

Middle East respiratory virus spreads easily

LONDON – A mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East spreads easily between people and appears more deadly than SARS, doctors reported Wednesday after investigating...

World Briefs

Al-Qaida-linked rebels storm UN in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia – Seven al-Qaida-linked militants on a suicide mission attacked the U.N. compound Wednesday with a truck bomb and the...

U.S. tries saving Taliban talks

Afghanistan’s Karzai objects to militants opening office in Qatar

Afghan leader backs away from Taliban talks

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan’s president said Wednesday he will not pursue peace talks with the Taliban unless the United States steps out of the negotiations, while also insisting the m...

Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions

BERLIN – Appealing for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate chang...

IRS draws new fire about $70M in salary bonuses

WASHINGTON – Already reeling from a pair of scandals, the Internal Revenue Service is drawing new criticism over plans to hand out millions of dollars in employee bonuses. The Oba...

Fed head in preparation to slow bond purchases

Markets head south after Bernanke’s announcement

Missile theory revived in 1996 Flight 800 crash

MINEOLA, N.Y. – Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theor...